[mythtv-users] hdpvr channel change issue

[Johnny Stenback]

On 10/18/2010 05:30 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:15 PM, John P Poet<jppoet at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Steven Adeff<adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I get this in the backend log when myth tries to use the HDPVR,
>>> 2010-10-18 19:59:39.936 TVRec(5): HW Tuner: 5->5
>>> 2010-10-18 19:59:40.024 Channel(/dev/video2) Error:
>>> GetCurrentChannelNum(858): Failed to find Channel
>>> 2010-10-18 19:59:40.033 Channel(/dev/video2)::TuneTo(858): Error,
>>> failed to find channel.
>>> 2010-10-18 19:59:40.041 TVRec(5) Error: Failed to set channel to 858.
>>> Reverting to kState_None
>>>
>>> I have it set for that tuner to run a script that changes the channel
>>> on the cablebox, just like my firewire tuners.
>>>
>>> I don't get why I'm getting this error with the HDPVR tuner?
>>
>> I had something similar happen when my DB got slightly corrupt.  In my
>> case, the "channel" table had lost the data out of the freqid column.
>> For the HD-PVR, the data in that column should be the same as the data
>> in the channum column.
>>
>> John
>
> Thanks for the reply, but my channum and freqid fields match, and the
> chanid is that number with the source # in front of it, so that looks
> like it's not the issue.
>
> what seems to be happening is that myth doesn't even try to run the
> channel change script, it's like it's trying to tune /dev/video2
> directly, even though I give it a script command to run.

IIRC I saw something like this a long time ago when I had accidentally 
entered a channel in the "Preset tuner to channel" setting for the input 
connection in question. HD-PVR's can't be tuned, so that setting needs 
to remain empty.

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jst